ROAD SAFETY : Strategies and Solutions

Dr Robin T Underwood $99 + GST = $108.90

Road Safety is a significant world-wide problem. At present, almost 1.2 million persons are killed, and between 20 and 50 million are injured, in road crashes globally each year. To give an idea of the enormity of the global road safety problem, in the year 2000 war and conflict were responsible for just over 300,000 deaths. In Australia, close to 1,600 persons are killed on the roads each year, and for each fatal crash there are about 10 crashes involving serious injury, and many more crashes involving minor injury and/or property damage only. The total cost of road crashes in Australia has been estimated as about $15 billions per year. In addition, there is untold pain and suffering.

The aim of Road Safety - Strategies and Solutions is to provide some understanding of the road safety problem and how it might be tackled, and to set out practical strategies and solutions that hopefully will be of assistance to those concerned with addressing the problem.

Further significant reduction in the road toll will require continued effort to encourage improved road user behaviour by the use of appropriate education, training, publicity and enforcement programs. In addition, much more emphasis should be given to the wider application of known and effective road and vehicle safety measures, and to speed management. These have the potential to substantially reduce the number and severity of road crashes.

Book Contents:

Acknowledgements; Introduction; Traffic and Road Safety. An Overview; Road User, Vehicle, Road and Legislation Basics; Road Safety Management; Specific Issues; Road Safety Investigations; Vehicle Safety Considerations; Road User Aids; Intersections; Provision for Pedestrians; Provision for Bicyclists; Provision for Motorcyclists; Provision for Road Based Public Transport; Land Development Considerations; Urban Roads; Rural Roads; Enforcement; Appendices; Glossary of Terms; Index.

2006 0858258447 336pp

The Author

Dr Robin T Underwood, D Eng, BCE, Dip T & R P, CHT (Yale), FLITE (USA), FPIA, FIEAust, CPEng, spent many years with the Victorian State Road Authority where he was involved in road, traffic and road safety engineering. He then was at Monash and Deakin Universities, where his interests were in road, road safety and municipal engineering. He has been involved in the preparation of a municipal road safety strategy.

He has served on both national and international committees dealing with road and road safety matters, and has written extensively on road and traffic engineering, and road safety. He is the author of four books, namely A History of Traffic Engineering in Australia, Traffic Management - An Introduction, The Geometric Design of Roads and Road Engineering Practice.

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